Fence-stay



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G- GHOLSON.

FENCE STAY.

No. 344,264. Patented June 22, 1886.

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WILLIAM C. GHOLSON, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

FENCE-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 344,264, dated June 22, 1886.

Application filed September 29, 1884. Serial No. 144,183.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. GHoLsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fence-Stays; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same.

My invention relates to fence-stays to be used with wire fences; and it consists of a stay formed in two parts, one part being a straight rod or bar and the other a flexible rod or wire attached to the straight rod, as will be hereinafter described, and provided at intervals with loops which are adapted to receive one or more fence-wires.

My improvement is illustrated in the ac companying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a section of fence, showing my improvement applied thereto; Fig. 2, a separate view of the two parts constituting the stay connected together, and Fig. 8 a simi lar View of a modification.

In the drawings, A is a flat bar, preferably made of steel, provided with acrook, a, and B a flexible rod, provided with eyes 0 c and with bent portions or loops d. These parts constitute the stay, and are applied in the following manner to a wire fence, in which E are posts, fthe fence-wires, and r brackets through which the wires are passed. After the wires are put into the brackets and stretched tight by any suitable means, the round flexible rod B is placed in a vertical position against the fence-wires, so that the latter will pass into the loops (1. The straight flat bar A is then passed through the upper coiled eye, 0, then down between the loops (Z of rod B, passing alternately from the side of one loop to the opposite side of the succeeding loop and in front of the fence-wires, with its flat side against the loops, and then into the lower coiled eye, 0, thus seeurelyholding the fencewires in loops (1, as shown in the drawings,

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and maintaining them always in the same straight upright condition to resist all shocks and pressure.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 a round flexible straight rod, D, is employed in place of the flexible straight flat steel bar A. Thus a cheap, durable, strong fence-stay is produced, one that is easily and quickly adjusted to any style of wire fence, that can be taken off to be renewed or repaired, that to a great degree is a substitute for posts, as but few posts are needed, that presents a small surface to the action of the wind, and which, when combined with the fence-wires, produces a structure of great strength, successfully resisting pressure of all kinds and distributing the strain throughout the fence and to every part thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A wirefence stay consisting of a rod provided at intervals with loops to receive the fence-wires, in combination with astraight rod or bar, substantially as described.

2. A wire-fence stay consisting of the flat straight steel bar A, in combination with the round rod B, provided with an eye or eyes, 0, and loops (7, through which eye and between which loops the said straight bar A is passed, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the wires of a fence, of two flexible supports, one a straight rod or bar and the other a rod coiled at both ends about the straight rod, and provided with loops arranged at intervals thereon, through which the fence-wires are passed, the said straight rod or bar passing between theloops, as shown, and in front of the fence-wire, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM C. GHOLSON.

\Vitnesses:

J. O. CAMPBELL, R. H. THOMPSON. 

